The American actress, who lives in London with her husband, Chris Martin, the singer in the rock group Coldplay, leads a video encouraging ex-pats to register to vote from overseas in the presidential election in November.
Speaking alongside several other Americans living abroad, Miss Paltrow says: "Start now - right now. I'll be voting from London, but you can vote from anywhere. If you live abroad, you've got to do it. Every single vote will count."
She asks American ex-pats: "Where on earth will you vote?" The video concludes: "Vote Democrat. Vote Obama. Vote From Abroad."
The video, which will be distributed on the internet, was produced by Democrats Abroad, a division of the party devoted to persuading the millions of Americans living outside the country and eligible to vote to keep participating in domestic politics.
The organization estimates that while more than six million registered Democrats live abroad, only one million ballots were requested by all US citizens overseas for the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections.
Mr Obama's lead in opinion polls has been cut by aggressive television advertising by Republican candidate John McCain portraying him as elitist, presumptuous and celebrity-obsessed.
Look, if you want to encourage people to vote when they are outside of the US, great. But when you start telling people WHO they should vote for, then you turn people off and make yourself sound like an asshole.
Gwenyth, you don't even LIVE in the US, you just want to be a self important idiot who thinks their opinion matters more then anyone else's.
Don't tell people who to vote for, let them make up their own minds. Encourage them to vote, yes, but people are smart enough to vote for whom they want.
Travis
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